Dreams, from the point of view of psychology, are a journey into our subconscious, a reflection of everyday emotions, an inner experience of some events, hidden desires, problems and sensations . It is noted that various factors can influence the content of dreams.
Why dreams?
- The appearance of dreams can be facilitated by increased emotionality, both positive and negative.
- The state of human health can directly affect the depth and content of sleep.
- What you will dream about is affected even by the posture in which you sleep.
What is a dream?
Often, specialists are asked what dreams mean; psychology has several interpretations of this term:
- Sleep is defined as the natural state of the person in which he periodically resides. In this case, there is a decrease in brain activity and a slowdown in the body's internal processes.
- Specifying this state, scientists indicate that sleep is a sequence of certain images.
- And, finally, a dream is one of the physiological needs of the body, which he daily (hedonarily) satisfies.
When talking about dreams, they often talk about colored dreams, which are periodically seen by that or that person. For a long time it was believed that such dreams only come to people in heightened emotional excitability, often - mentally unbalanced. In addition, it is proved that in most people they are black and white. Today, the attitude to the color of dreams has changed somewhat, and color dreams, as psychology explains, are dreamed, as a rule, to people creative, with a rich imagination, and not with a broken psyche. At the same time it is asserted that almost any person, even occasionally, can see a colored dream.
Often in dreams you can see quite real people, places that are very familiar, or events that are related to you or your loved ones. Realistic dreams, as psychology explains, are a reflection of certain concepts, ideas, situations that you are well acquainted with and which you recall at different times. Repeatedly imaged in the brain, the picture will sooner or later be projected in your dream, while it can be as static if it is observed both as a photograph and as dynamic: with conversations, movements, etc. As a rule, in realistic dreams you can see people and places that you know well.
Why do you have terrible dreams?
Often people have nightmares, terrible dreams that make them wake up. It happens that after this a person can not sleep for a long time, being afraid of its continuation (which also happens). In search of an answer to the question of why bad dreams are dreamed, we can turn to scientific observations: psychology claims that their appearance is facilitated by:
- physical and mental fatigue;
- prolonged nervous overstrain, prolonged stressful and depressive conditions;
- various chronic or current diseases. Even nasal congestion, which does not allow breathing normally, can cause nightmares;
- uncomfortable posture during sleep, as well as snoring and apnea (stopping breathing during sleep).
If dreams are repeated, psychology interprets their appearance as a brain reaction to a particular problem, which it is necessary to solve, but it is not being solved yet. Thus, such a dream is a kind of hint to compulsory actions that can change the current situation. At the same time, science notes, such dreams are, as a rule, realistic, precise, bright, which allows them to remember them well.